{"nrhp_refnum":"94001178","name":"Cumberland County Courthouse","other_names":["VDHR No. 24-05"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"US 60, N side, at jct. with VA 600","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cumberland","county":"Cumberland County","state":"VA","lat":37.49707177200003,"lon":-78.24476997399995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-09-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-story brick county courthouse completed in 1818 in the town of Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia, built by master builder William A. Howard, with a clerk's office, former jail, well and Confederate monument on the courthouse green.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the courthouse's association with legal and governmental events that shaped Cumberland County's history for over two centuries. Its records include material on the Bizarre (1797) and Garrett (1923) trials. Sandblasting in 1968 reduced its material integrity, so it was not argued under Criterion C, although the original form and design remain.","narrative":"Cumberland County Courthouse is a one-story, five-bay brick building on US 60 in the town of Cumberland, Virginia. Completed in 1818 by master builder William A. Howard, it has a gabled roof and a tetrastyle Tuscan portico in a Jeffersonian classical manner. It is the county's third courthouse. Nearby on the green are a contemporary clerk's office with Doric detailing, a brick jail from about 1823 later used as a health center, a partly reconstructed well, and a granite Confederate monument erected in 1901. The interior was substantially remodeled in the 1960s after the courtroom ceiling collapsed, and sandblasting of the brick in 1968 damaged the walls and mortar. Even so, the original form and design survive. The property was listed for its long role in local legal and governmental affairs. Its records span more than two centuries and include material from the Bizarre trials of 1797 and the Garrett trials of 1923. The building still hosts court and county business.","period_of_significance":"1818 - C. 1925","architect_builder":"Howard, William A.","architectural_style":"EARLY REPUBLIC: Early Classical Revival","criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still serves as the county's primary public space for legal and governmental activity; the clerk's office and former jail have been remodeled, and the jail was converted to a health center in 1950.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.976639-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/57/6803/41680357/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/94001178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001178/1363ee5d56-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94001178/1363ee5d56-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Ser Amantio di Nicolao","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cumberland_County_Courthouse,_VA_-_oblique_view.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cumberland_County_Courthouse,_VA_-_oblique_view.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"07000829","name":"Cumberland Court House Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/cumberland-court-house-historic-district-07000829/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41680357","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumberland_County_Courthouse_(Virginia)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5193871"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/cumberland-county/cumberland-county-courthouse-94001178/"}